End-to-End Behavior
End-to-end reliability:
- Coupling membership with link-level eventual reliability.
End-to-end flow control:
- Utilization-based costs for links.
- Direct control on each user’s output stream.
- Back pressure for “costly” users.
Three possible cases:
- No failures, no congested links (or slow receivers).
- No failures, congested links (or slow receivers).
- Failures occur.